THE FATE OF ONE POLICE OFFICIAL.
Its subsidy was proven clearly in the recent conviction of a West side inspector of police for the acceptance of protection money. He was one of hundreds. He was not of a really bad stripe. Circumstances gave him scarcely any other alternative.
Copyrighted 1910 by The Midnight Mission.
Used by permission of owners of copyright.
Where one escapes the toils of vice and sin, thousands
perish as slaves to the inexorable Vice Trust.
There are honest policemen in Chicago. Far be it from us to cast mud of dishonor and obloquy at all members of the department. We simply state that a large majority of the members are corrupt and that is a positive and known fact, although these men have managed through the protection afforded them by their political masters to escape the penitentiary.
The police duties, consequent on the assumption to such a position are numerous. In Chicago these are forgotten daily.
Wherever vice and sin flourish as they do here, the same condition of police corruption is to be found. It was found in San Francisco, Louisville, Seattle and other big cities.